Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whitaker said he has plans for the magazine's future, including more focus on science and technology, and more appeal to younger readers...
These prints are precursors to the later invention of the camera. The appeal of this style to the masses was that, for the first time, everyday people saw artwork in which their life was replicated. Print artists recorded familiar scenes in extreme detail. The market place, the country landscape, the butcher's meat market all are recorded with such accuracy that the viewer's mind dizzies at the intricacy with which lines are drawn. The prints were also used in order to display political or social allegories, much like the political cartoons of today's newspapers...
...have described the historical aspect of the prints in order to illustrate the dearth of the exhibit. That is to say, the appeal of this exhibit is not the quality of the prints as artistic creations, but within the context they were created and the meaning they had for the time period. To call most of these prints "superb works of art" would be the same as placing the Marlboro Man ads in the upper regions of artistic greatness. The two, after all, were displayed in similar places. We do not proclaim a political cartoon a masterpiece; rather...
...lined up in front of Tower Records in the Square at midnight." In addition to Bono's looks, U2's continued popularity is largely due to their ability to change with the times--and to make a political statement. And although most political figures have no sex appeal, revolutionaries have a distinct allure. "Che Guevera was the man," says Saadi Soudavar '00. "He was sucking on Havana's finest before el President said, 'It tastes good...
...forest: monkeys, army ants, poisonous frogs. Below, on a path, a woman and four girls, all in shirtwaist dresses. "Seen from above this way," writes novelist Barbara Kingsolver at the outset of The Poisonwood Bible (HarperCollins; 546 pages; $26), "they are pale, doomed blossoms, bound to appeal to your sympathies. Be careful. Later on you'll have to decide what sympathy they deserve." Fair warning, though what the reader must decide before finishing this turbulent, argumentative narrative goes beyond judging four white American daughters and their mother, set down deep in the Congo in the precarious year...